There are many advantages and disadvantages of investing in real estate. One of the advantages of investing in real estate is it can give you income for the rest of your life. If you buy properties and rent the properties out it can give you life long income. Another advantage of investing in real estate is you can use a lot of leverage to acquire real estate. There are many ways you can buy real estate without using your own money. One way of doing this is seller financing. One aspect of seller financing is when you agree to pay the seller over time the down payment and the rest you get from the bank.

One last advantage of investing in real estate is real estate has intrinsic value to it. A stock that you buy can lose 99% of its value but it is almost impossible to buy a property and it loses 99% of its value. One disadvantage of investing in real estate is if you buy a property and can’t make the mortgage payments you can lose the property and damage your credit. Another disadvantage of investing in real estate is, as an investor you depend on a lot of people to do their part. If the people you are renting out to, don't pay their rent you will have to use their security money and find new people quickly or it can eat up your profits.

One last disadvantage of investing in real estate is the cost it takes to maintain or fix up a property. Many times when you think you’re done with a property something can break or needs to be replaced. Investing in real estate does have its advantages and disadvantages, if you use the information you read here you will have some idea of what the advantages and disadvantages are.